So you’ve taken the jump and chosen to be an artist. Now what? Where’s the fabulous gallery opening in New York City? Where are the international collectors to lavish praise and money on you? Where’s the gallery to take care of all those pesky marketing tasks and details? Instead, you battle rejection. You wonder where the money is going to…
Have you got what it takes to be an ARTIST? Here’s my Top Ten List of what takes to succeed: 1. Failure. You’ve got to work through the bad in order to get to the good. Failure is an integral part of being an artist. 2. A website. Sorry, I know you didn’t want to hear this but it’s true.…
I recently learned an awful lot about the professional life of artists when I attended a conference that focused on arts graduates and how they’re faring in this changing economy. What I learned may surprise you. The conference itself was called 3 Million Stories, so titled for the 3 million art and design students in the USA. But the information…